Tessa’s Recipe Rundown
TASTE: Slightly sweet with savory Asian-inspired flavors. TEXTURE: The chicken is incredibly moist and tender while the sauce is thick and slightly sticky. The sesame seeds add a nice little crunch. EASE: Super easy, almost no prep required. Perfect for a weeknight dinner. APPEARANCE: Chicken thighs can be a little wonky looking but I think the thick caramel-colored sauce and the sesame seeds pretty it up a little. PROS: Easy, flavorful, cheap. CONS: None! Just make sure to line your baking pan with foil to make clean up easy, that sauce gets sticky! WOULD I MAKE THIS AGAIN? Absolutely.This post may contain affiliate links. Read our disclosure policy.
Honey Soy Chicken Thighs use just a few simple ingredients to make an incredibly flavorful and simple meal that’s bound to become a weeknight staple.
Food, cooking, and baking are the things that have been a constant source of excitement and passion for me for many years now. Beyond that, I always say that I basically love anything that you’d find in a women’s magazine. Fashion, beauty, health and fitness, travel, entertainment, home decor. With those things I kind of fall in and out of obsessions. One month I might be really obsessed with beauty and makeup and watch a bunch of YouTube tutorials and attempt to wear false eyelashes. But then the next month I’ve temporarily moved onto a home decor obsession and spend all my free-time scouring home decor blogs for redecorating ideas. This is always how it’s been for me, especially in high school. In fact, before I discovered my love for all things culinary, it used to stress me out big time because I thought I would never find my true passion or something I was really good at. Have you ever felt something like that before?
I still really enjoy all those other things, and I like to share them with you guys on Sundays off and on. But on the same note I can’t tell you have relieved I am to have found what makes me happy. My younger brother is about to graduate high school and is experiencing that same dilemma. It’s CRAZY to me that at 18 years old you’re supposed to know yourself well enough to determine such huge life-changing decisions like selecting your college major and your lifelong career path. Most public school educations teach children facts and acquired information and skills. Many classes never encourage students to look introspectively, to assess their personal strengths, weaknesses, interests, and passions and to test those waters. When did you realize what your passions were? When did you realize what career path you wanted for yourself? Are you still struggling with those things?
I really didn’t mean to delve so deep into these things today because hell, you’re really only here for a simple and scrumptious Honey Soy Chicken Thighs recipe right?? Well, here you go! This recipe is just that, and you probably already have most, if not all, of the ingredients in your pantry. This recipe might just become a weeknight staple in your house!
Honey Soy Chicken Thighs
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 to 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 3 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 teaspoons sesame seeds, optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425°F. Line an 8×8-inch or similarly sized baking pan with foil. Place the chicken thighs in the pan.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the honey, vegetable oil, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, and pepper. Pour the mixture over the chicken, turning the chicken to coat.
- Bake, uncovered, for 40 minutes, or until cooked through with an internal temperature of 165°F. If they are browning too quickly cover with foil.
- Remove from the oven and transfer the chicken to four plates. Let rest for 5 minutes. Pour the remaining sauce in the pan over the chicken. Sprinkle with the sesame seeds before serving.
Trying this recipe tonight, never attempted a honey soy marinade from scratch!! I’m nervous but hopeful, will post my outcome !! 🙂
If I wanted to make this the day before so I could just come home and throw it the oven, do you think that marinating the chicken in the sauce will be bad? Would it infuse too much flavor/salt into the chicken?
Just made this tonight …. incredible!! I served it over brown rice and also sauteed some red peppers to serve with it. New favorite recipe!!
I made this for my family last night, along with stir-fried vegetables and fried rice. This chicken melts in your mouth, and will now be a family staple. So easy, too! I love your blog!
Yay!! So happy to hear that. Thanks so much 🙂
Soy chicken is soo awesome *_* With all due respect to your recipes, I still think you should try to use 1-2 dried chili and sauté it over hot oil instead of using black pepper. The heat from the chili really harmonizes well with the other flavours!
Thanks for your input!
This looks incredible and so simple for busy weeknights!
This recipe looks amazing!
I was the same way! I never had a passion before cooking/blogging, and I figured I was doomed to a passionless, hobbyless life. Good thing we found this!
I am drooling all over my keyboard…loving this recipe! I need me some new chicken ideas! Pinned